Guiding food safety authorities in inspection strategy design: A systems approach to food safety regulation

The Nederlandse- Voedsel en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) asked the at-first-sight simple question of how to combine risk-based and random methods for inspection. Risk-based and random inspection methods have contrasting incentives. Risk-based inspection increases efficiency and allocates resources efficiently but fails to regulate low and emergent...

A Reference Architecture for Blockchain-Based Crowdsourcing Platforms

Companies increasingly tender knowledge-intensive tasks using crowdsourcing platforms to gain access to scarce knowledge and skills otherwise out of reach, and in this way, gaining competitive advantage. Despite its potential, existing crowdsourcing platforms encounter several challenges, including (1) fragmentation of expertise, as there are...

Designing and Evaluation Transparency in Open Government

One of the objectives of opening data is the creation of transparency. However, transparency is an ill-defined concept. My PhD thesis aims to help designers, architects and policy-makers develop portals and applications to enable transparency for the diverse society. Literature will be reviewed to understand the concept of transparency and to...

Contract Negotiations in Inter-Organizational Collaborative Projects for New Product Development: An Intellectual Property Rights Management Perspective

Inter-organizational collaboration for new product development is increasing all over the world due to soaring Research and Development costs, and the uncertainties posed by the new technological products and processes, companies are reluctant to spend all their in-house resources and are searching for new strategies for innovation , like inter...